We’re actually obsessed with this star-packed Murder on the Orient Express trailer

“It was five o'clock on a winter's morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guides as the Taurus Express. It consisted of a kitchen and dining-car, a sleeping-car and two local coaches…”

So began Agatha Christie’s iconic 1934 novel, Murder on the Orient Express, and, in those immortal lines, it conjured up a tale of murder, intrigue, deception, and, above all else, luxury train travel.

And it’s safe to say that the first trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s hugely anticipated 2017 film adaptation does not disappoint.

Just as the book describes, we open on a snowy scene: a steam train’s lamplights gleam brightly through the gloom of a dark wintry morning, and, gathered alongside the vehicle, a number of police officers chat animatedly with a guard.

Something has happened aboard this train, but what?

Well, murder, obviously (it’s a Christie novel, so murder is and always will be the answer) and it’s up to Hercule Poirot (Branagh) to find out who did the dark deed.

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Kayleigh Dray is editor of Stylist.co.uk, where she chases after rogue apostrophes and specialises in films, comic books, feminism and television. On a weekend, you can usually find her drinking copious amounts of tea and playing boardgames with her friends.